LECTURER: S.Laflin.
DURATION: Weeks 8-12 Semester One. (Weeks 1 to 5 of the course)
LECTURES: Approx 10 hours.
PROBLEM SESSIONS: Approx 3 hours during scheduled lecture periods.
The problem for week 2 may be viewed here.
The problem for week 3 may be viewed here.
The problem for week 4 may be viewed here.
The problem for week 5 may be viewed here.
PRIVATE STUDY: Approx 20 hours. These exercises were issued one week and
discussed the next, so the five-week course included four such exercises.
These may be viewed here
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT: Examination (half of 3-hour paper).

SYLLABUS.

PART ONE: Graphics.
History and development of graphics and graphics standards.
Interactive Graphics and Software Techniques.
Graphical Kernel System as an example of a recent standard.
Graphical Output devices and elementary plotter steps.
Mathematics in computer graphics.
Equation of a straight line, intersection of two lines, mapping lines to the
screen, DDA algorithms for lines and curves, Resolution and Jaggies.
GKS Output primitives and related topics, text output, cell-array and image
processing, compression techniques.
Transformations in two-dimensions, shift, scale and rotate.
Clipping and windowing of lines and polygonal areas.